Grenade thrown at SLA patrol

[TamilNet, Friday, 30 January 1998, 23:59 GMT]The Liberation Tigers threw grenade at a Sri Lankan Army petrol today 11.30 a.m. in Lotus road, in Aarukal Madathadi in Anaikoddai. Reports from Jaffna said that some SLA soldiers were injured in the grenade attack. Later, the army demolished a house from which the attackers had thrown grenade.

Sources in Jaffna said that it was not clear whether four bodies which the SLA brought to the Jaffna Hospital today, claiming that they were LTTE members who had committed suicide in an underground bunker nearby Kokkuvil were connected to this incident.